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“Editors are inundated with submissions, and every editor comes into work each day to find a new stack of manuscripts and proposals. They are all looking out for books in their area of interest or expertise, and they are trying to avoid books that are too similar to something else the house has recently bought or published, as well as books by fanatics, lunatics, and terrible writers. Barry, Sam (2010-05-18). Write That Book Already!: The Tough Love You Need To Get Published Now (p. 95). F+W Media, Inc Kindle Edition.”

“"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

“Czasami możesz zrobić dla innych coś, czego nie możesz zrobić dla siebie.”

“Leżąc, uświadomił sobie, jak bardzo oddalił się od świata i wszelkich obowiązków, jak głupio się uniezależnił. Nikogo nie potrzebował, nikogo nie znał, nie uczestniczył w niczyim życiu. Tak bardzo oddalił się od świata zależności i zobowiązań, że nie miał pewności, czy jeszcze żyje.”